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CVE-2017-2298
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-06-30T20:29:00.217 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:15:54.710

Summary

The mcollective-sshkey-security plugin before 0.5.1 for Puppet uses a server-specified identifier as part of a path where a file is written. A compromised server could use this to write a file to an arbitrary location on the client with the filename appended with the string "_pub.pem".

Affected products

puppet — mcollective-sshkey-security

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References

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